[jambo]

For a friendly desktop Ubuntu or mint work well. Different look, same basic setup with each. Fedora and Centos are setup in line with red hat approaches, Ubuntu and mint are based on Debian. Suse is its own thing built by novell.

Personally I'd shove Ubuntu on it and find how you feel about that. Live images on usb sticks are now very good so try a few and see what you like the look of.

Jambo

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